To Love or to Deduce

Sherlock Holmes is one of the best known crime solvers in the world even though he is fictional.  He is known for his powers of observation and his ability to deduct and conclude right at the scene.   The reason for his amazing crime solving skills is his intellect and the way he separates that from his emotions.

Sherlock Holmes uses his superior intellect on many cases including “The Scandal in Bohemia” where Doctor Watson finds Holmes in his house puzzling over a letter sent from an anonymous source.  When Watson comes in Holmes quickly deduces that Doctor Watson had gone into the medical profession, had gotten wet lately, and he had a lazy servant girl.  That is the first time in the story when Sherlock’s intellect really makes an appearance. The way he could deduce so much about Watson from a mark on his finger and a scratch on his shoe.  The letter that Holmes had was telling the pair that an agent of his would come.  Holmes shows Doctor Watson that the paper was made in Bohemia from the logo on the paper.  Holmes also deduces that the letter was written by a German because of the poor sentence structure.  This is another part in the story that Holmes’s superior intellect shine just like House on the t.v show “House” when he quickly figures out what is wrong with the patient and where the patient has been.  When the agent gets to Baker Street Holmes quickly deduces that the agent who was wearing a mask was the king of Bohemia.  The king announces that his old girlfriend has a photograph of them together.  The king tells them that she intends to blackmail him out of the marriage he would commit to shortly.  The king understands that Mr. Holmes is one of the best detectives in London so he hires Sherlock and Watson to find the photograph. 
When Sherlock Holmes is in the confines of his apartment on Baker Street whether he is with a client or not he lounges in his recliner only getting up to eat or use the bathroom, but when he is on a case outside his Baker Street home he is as active as a human can be which was what he was doing when Watson arrived at Baker Street the next day.  Holmes walked in disguised as a drunken groom and told Watson of what he had deduced.  He had figured out where their subject was living that she had gotten married and how to get the photograph.  That is where Holmes’s power of deduction yet again helps solve yet another case, he just needed a plan and he asks Watson for help.  This is just like the show house when House knows how to cure the patient and he asks his only true friend James Wilson to help him.   
A lot of crime shows, books, and movies end this way, the plan at the end.  It works sometimes, sometimes it doesn’t.  Holmes dressed as a clergyman, waits in front of Miss Irene Alders house, waiting for her to come home.  When Irene Alder pulls up to her house a fight quickly arises to open the door of the cab.  Holmes steps in the middle and rubs fake blood on his face.  Irene then takes pity on him and takes him into her house.  Then Doctor Watson fires a plumber’s rocket and calls fire.  When Miss Alder heard the call she rushed to secure the photograph just like Holmes knew she would.  Holmes said that the fire was a false alarm and leaves.  The next morning Watson and Holmes arrive at Miss Alders’ house she is not there, but she left them a letter telling them that she knew they would come for the photograph but she did not intend to black mail the king anymore. 
Even thought his plan didn’t work, Holmes still solved the case just like House cured the patient.  These are things that the normal human could never do and the only reason that House and Holmes can do that is their ability to separate their intellect from their emotions, for House happiness from medical knowledge and for Holmes love from deduction.